âOur current governor, we mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected. Thereâs a joke, sheâs a pretty good looking gal, thereâs a joke goes around weâre the coldest state with the hottest governor. (laughter) And there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town â that was a non-partisan job. But to get along and go along â she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I wonât go into that. She also had about an 80% approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership.â

A great indicator for a democracy is a balanced and open environment for the multitude of opinions or statements. It is called freedom.

So what if people are members of AIP and expressing their opinions, interests? What matters is the impact on others, and their actions specifically. As long as it is rhetoric only the consideration of best interests for a fair democracy outweighs their views.

No doubt but they (McCain campaign) have made it seem in recent statements that she had nothing whatsoever to do with AIP and it was only her husband. Now we start to see the real truth and it looks like the McCain campaign either doesn't know the real story or is lying about it. Either way voters should know the whole story about her background since she could be president. I have no problems with differing opinion or philosophy but I do have a problem when they claim (falsely it now appears) that she was not a member of AIP for political reasons.